Basically, I have achieved the MONUMENTAL EFFORT STRAINING TASK of friending Tom Hall on facebook. This means I can send a message to him asking to get on #pckf sometime. Now, of course there is no guarantee he'll even reply to the PM, but if he does, we want to be prepared with some questions, as opposed to what happened with John Romero, and we were all flapping our lips going "uh-buuuh".

StupidBunny wrote:Ask about that dirty picture of Tom that comes with TED. But please for the love of God don't make that your first question

I thought we already knew what it was about?

Calvero wrote:I asked John Romero about this picture in 2002 and he said:

"Hahahaha! Wow, I forgot all about that picture. I can't believe it's
in the TED5 source files! It's basically a pic that Adrian drew of Tom
getting Adrian's dick blasted into his face with Adrian saying "Sorry!".
It's because Tom and Adrian used to share a worktable together and Tom
would always bump the table while Adrian was drawing graphics with the
mouse and Tom would say, "Sorry!" That picture never appears in Ted5
anywhere.

Wish we had done this when John Romero visited; spent most of the time thinking â€œoh man, it's really him!â€

Potential Tom Hall questions:

Q: How much of the Keen modding scene are you aware of? What are your thoughts on it?

Q: What were some of the ideas (story elements, enemies, levels/environments) that didn't make it into the official games?

Q: It's known that Keen 6 â€œAliens Ate my Babysitter!â€ was originally intended to be a part of â€œGoodbye Galaxy!â€ to make it a trilogy. Did the split result in significant changes to the intended story for Keen's 4-6? If so, what was the original plot?

Q: What, if anything, is Mortimer McMire's motivation? Is he just a jerk, a misunderstood kid, a malevolent mastermind, or something else?